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# % :: * I Knew Him For Fourteen Years ARTHUR N. DAVIS. D. D. S. y. V 4 . • V.V.V.V«’i (Copyright, 1918, by the McClure Newspa- per Syndicate.) CHAPTER XV—Continued. - ■■■■9 The Jubilation with which the news of the sinking of the Lusitania was re ceived by the German people was gen crnl. It was so significant that I he lieve America would have declared war Immediately had It been known, have failed to find a jingle German who did not exult over the dastardly crime, ami the activity of the Zep* (telina In their raids on open towns evoked similar demonstrations. 1 Tlu.t the views which the pectple ti«dd regarding the conduct of the war were strongly inftueucvd by the public l»re«M. which was absolutely controlled by the gm rntSMtit. was only to be eg pertedL The fact that in peace time the per as of Germany waa perhaps the mom retlalde In the world, mode of H a potilrolarly tatonMe tool In I bands af the government la time TW German araRfi|ar la csspel lo •bo poofdv. TW lost ward In any argn mmd ana atwayw fdnd»Wd by proof Upllid by wamo new aymper on trio I dtloa and even oo * Ha rtebt hi dee arttootfc~ MWvnM) amttee fraoaAatod. TW yoya* aayd an" was | odgbt W. We siaoyw final and eaoebmfie. * \«obtM * "W* rnr owa? In fin me. fioeb waa oor Ignorance of war that we dedded that, even thoogh ll were not advisable* lo motor In Bel- glum and France, where w:e were lioutid, we might safely plan a U»ur In (W Black forest In Germany. We had left Berlin late In the after noon. In the eyentng,*when we arrived at Gotha, we found that the younger waiters in the icstuunints and hotels hud already left and that the older re serves expected a general call the next day. The next morning we started for Frankfort. As we passed through vil lage after village, war preparations be came more and more evident. Measures were Iwdng taken everywhere to arouse enthusiasm-young men gathered on school steps were siuging patriotic songs, students' were inarching and speeches were being made in the mar ket places. About five o’clock that afternoon we arrived in Frankfort. The whole place was In a fever of excitement over the mobilization posters and their resent ment against the French was being n roused by “extras,” which were handed out without charge, announc ing that the Fr«ich had already drop(»ed bombs on the railroad at Nurnberg and that French officers In autos had over-ridden the borders. The ridiculous statements abouT French flyers dropping borolw on the milroad at Nurnberg had not the slightest foundation, of course. The oliler people who had lived through the war of VTO had Interested audiences for once while they related post experience* ami gave advice a* to what preparations to make. A Mllty of fond shortage aeemed to he u|iprvmn»t in ail minds, ami the criie* were stormed with eager era, Balt MKtdmly Jnmprd to 79 < a i—und a ad other things la On fiooday. Angmd 1 all 7 Mae la the rnaatry waa fil and we beard af many ftsts hetac mm owl sf Ihrtr ears la the from the station I found an old cab driver who (bought he «oald take tt* for the IHieral bonus I agreed to pay him. We had hardly got aeated ulmn an officer tried to force os not. fl mly my wife’s quick plea of lilt sM\cd him n hhick eye and me Iron' mrs or a large line. After England declared war, the ef forts to , capture spies were doubled* and the mob bad a new lot of signs to Itenr down. We were forbidden to talk English on the telephone or on' the street. We kept .to our homes rather closely. Most of the buses, tuxicabs and horses had been commandeered, and the bnly sighs ,of life in Berlin were furnished by the officers driving madly about tu high-powered cars which exceeded all speed limits and other traffic regulations. After a few days, things began to re turn to normal again. The food sup ply seemed ample and the headlines In the newspapers were so encouraging and the rci>ort8 of victories upon vic tories so convincing that every one ex* pe?Pted the war to In? over within a very short time and they began to eat up the stores they had so excitedly collected. Bread cards were Initiated, It Is true, hut the amount allowed was more than adequate for all except, perhaps, the very poor who depend almost entirely upon bread. • • The press began advising the peo ple to conserve food but at the same time said that If care was taken there was no danger of there not being • nough for all. School teacher* gave dally talk* to the etiihlrrn to eat every thing oo their plates. One went *» far a« to announce: *1 alwaya lick my plate, children, and y«u should do the Gemma wl out af fmirWOr mm ^ One of the subterfuge* resorted fa by amne of the •rnr profiteer* to ma ce* I the extent of their gain* and es cape taxntlon was tb'Invent thdr •ur ns earnings In work* of art and ufhvr xpen»Mre luxuries. As the tax a**e«<«. ment* were tm*cd principally upon the individual's hank de|»oslt* and the tax collecting machinery was very much out of gear It whs comparatively easy to evade the law by careful manipula tion of one’s hunk aqrount, and by dis bursing profits received without hav ing them go through the hank. ,A Ger man whom I knew told me that he had disposed of an oil painting which hrtd cost him $.'100 for no less than $85,000, the price 6f works of art and antiques having Increased to a remarkable ex tent because of the demand /or them from tax dodgers. * Under the stress of the changed food conditions the hungry German soon Ireplaced the honest fTwinan. Ger mans had always had a reputation for honesty, hut their claims to.such dis tinction disappeared with the food sup ply. Necessity «<*on brought out all that was worst in the German char acter. Although the government decreed a high fine and Imprisonment as pun tshment for buying or selling anything which had been commandeered, specii lators sprang up on every side and people bragged openly of what they had stored away. Tlie worst deprivation was In the lack or fats. The p<sq»le showed It very plainly. One se'dom saw a fat mnn or a fat woman, although before the war fatness was almont character 1*1 Ic of the German phyalqne. Indeed. I saw a rather stout woman being fal lowed by at least twenty boy* who were Jeering at her and making star ring remarks ahoat the manner In which she had retained her *%.dnln- pad*. A fat permm In Go-nfi^piy tndn? I* regarded nil I Vntumtty the w The nmrcttf af mefmh munitions wn* evidenced early fa the war when the Interior* and exterior* of house* throughout the country were thoroughly rnnuncked and everything n the way of rop|M*f, brass or itn mlmim fixtures or cooking utensils that wasn’t absolutely necessary' seised. Horses wen- gradually dianppcnrlng frsm sight when I lef! early thin year. Ot t e saw them lying about the streets where they dropped from exhaustion, and whut disposition whs made of their corpse* can well be imagined. It Is quite certain that no part was wasted. Dogs, too, nearly vanished from city life.. A man I know, who hud kept a. fine Newfoundland dog. told me that It had disappeared one night*and the next day its skin was found hanging on the fence with a sign reading: “Died for the fatherland.” ’ One of the principal articles of fresh meat to he seen in tlie butcher shops consisted of black crows. They were selling at 75 cents apiece. There was something ludicrous In the thought of the Germans being compelled to “eat. crow,” hut there was little to laugh at In eating It oneself. To obtain oil, pr\gcs were offered to the srtiool children to collect fruit seeds, from which it could he extract ed. and veritable mountains of the seeds were thus obtained. The last meal I had la Berlin was on January 21. 1918. when I dined at the Hotel Adlon. It consisted of one Kardlne, three thin ollce* of cold smoked salmon, soup which was hard ly mote than hot salt water, taro small holled potatoes and a* a substitute for mmstarrh pudding. No butter and no saner* of nay kind were served. Black breed I took la my pocket. TW efcerk far this elaborate table d’hote nmol amounted to $4 1*1. To sum op tW sltnatton as I wa* aide to wharrvr If After die ■ What? Did ll lenyt you wank, low In •pints and vitality? Influenza !§ a catarrhal diseam, and after you fe- cover from the acuta ataga much of tb* catarrh is left. This and your weakness invito ftlrtkar attacks. The Toac Needed a Perm. First, because it will assist in build ing up your strength, reinvigorating your 'igssdou and quickening afl functions. Second* because It aids in overcoming the catarrhrJ condi tions, helping dispel the inflamma tion, giving tbs membranes an op tunity to pen their functions. arnwr-rvu buo«|MV» tfaa sftsr grip by the arsmr am si this gsal Issls trsscwmt. is* bmst profit by thdr m* psnmsr. 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CHARTSR XVI. Oermowy lo Worthwa. While IW Merman people have al ways Wen In thorough accord wt.h tW kaiser * ambitious project which Is so significantly descrilied by the popular slogan: “Deutschland uber allcs!” when the gn-at war, which was to achieve Germany’s alms, commenced. It came almost as much as a surprise to the Germans as It was to the rest of the world. They knew It was Inevi table and they looked forward eagerly to “Tier Tag,” but when it arrived the husH-i and excitement, not to say pnn>u. which developed .throughout Gen. any was so pronounced that in some cases it approached the ludicrous. Obviously the people were kept In ignoruace of the plans of their war barons in order that hostilities might <rome as a complete surprise to them and give color to the government’s contention that the wqr was forced- uponGe. many. So little thought did we give to the coniplexlh.es of,the political situation that on Fi May, July 31, 1914, my wife and I start* tf off on a motor trip. We had heard to many rumors of war within the prttious ten years that we ! saw no reason why an amicable solu tion should m*t t;galn he found as It had alw*ays been Wore. On oar way out (j^e Chariottenburger < *haossee we passea tW kaiser and the kalaerin driving to iVriln from Pots- •Ififii fit shoot sixty m'Um an hoar, sod (here were other indaatlons of ac tivity but we attach** little tmpor One c—panmcni *** cm* 4*4 wMh dfircta an tW4r way To >sin thrir rvfift- rnent* and veep grand they fell In their new forms whkh may have long been pat away In north halls for Jmd this appor- lonlty. hat which look theGrrman peo ple as hrell a* the allies completely by unrpHae. At Xauntberg. which U about half way betwrea Frankfort ami Berlin, a company of Mddler* hoarded the train sml gu«riled the corrhlor* while a noo- <‘oinml*Kiotied offieer questioned the imssengers. My wife, who wp* asleep In a cor ner of the coupe 1, was the only wom an In the compartment. Believing that her sleep might be feigned and she might, In fact, be a man in woman's clothing, the officer yelled at her: “Where ure yotf going?” Her Ameri can accent, revealed when she an swered him, incensed id in the more nnd he demanded angrily: “What right have you to use this train? .Where is your pttss|M»rt?” * -By that time I had produced all the papers of identification I could find ami Ms owi m Wfi* • •MdMfifiMm mg at • Mi by Mm cj*4 hfifi fi Mfi • Ml • Ml rtf of •ho (tied lo led him that my wife and 1 were returning to our home in Berlin, but he wa", too excited to listen and would have dragged us oft the train had not an officer, witli whom I had been talking en route. Intervened and said: “I shall make myself itersonully responsible for these peopto,‘ N I was glad I had admired hi* figv uniform. From the <*oape next to ours I saw- soldiers drug six Itussisn*. throw them ilown and kirk them In the face, and ime wa* a woman ? The train pulled out as the croud cU»*ed la on them.*o that 1 wa« unable to useertala the fate of those lanorewl hut helpless g • cwtvful t i them hefiHw a*4rew« the ■cwl ahlrh Ih* law ■ply hswsa ww* used la 4rf4*t*4 sham window* af •hspa The fact that they were et was oat koto.a In the pnbin add very • ^^ often the windows would hr broken by hungry mob* who couldn't resist the dght of what apt S'* red to be an much food. This led the government to or der the shopkeeper* to label the b,.xes: “Kmfrty Boxes” In onler to a%ert such UlsturiMmces and ri^rts. There was slmp'y nothing to buy In the food liae except substitutes, and of these there were hundreds, etch worse than the last. The remark: “If things get much worse, we shall soon lie eat ing rats as the Parisian* did hi 1870” brought the rejoinder: “Well, that w ouldu’t he so hud; w hat Fm dreading is the time when we shall have to be content with rut-substitute!” When we finally had curds for cof- fee-substiturc I gave up interest In substitutes and commenced to patron ize the simulators, figuring that it was better to risk the penalties im|*>sed by the law- for-itm h Holiiliiiiii than ear, a pmmt :> - - 9 I hud hswM tclsd thnl »ffiftfiMf roam hamm fuM of 1 i# | lu NwveMMer 1917 I paid which If II rhtfh of gws ^ ] would have hero worth oboe j It was. the tailor frankly ■ amd* of yam. and hrranwc af the lark of cotton I bread. I lib seam* were worked with a material which looked like paper •tring. This pa|ter string was lo general ose at that time, the defiartment stores all displaying notices warning customers not to carry their parcels by the string. Many purchases were • no longer wrapped, to save paper, and no pur chase amounting to less than $5 was delivered. Before 1 left Berlin, arllficlal silk was the principal fabric obtainable for ladles' wearing apparel. Altmud every woman in the land, princess or maid, was attired iu art taffeta. It sold for $10 a yard. In normal times It would have been worth front 75 cents to $1. In the fall of 1917, a cloth suit was un obtainable for less than $300."Tt would Imve been worth $25 in normal times. for sol* •he regulations ’than to min our health through undernourishment. For a long.time we were iiemiitted to receive “presents” of bacon, ham, sausages, eggs and butter from Den mark. hut this was finally prohibited through the influence of the Central Einkaufs Gesellschaft (The Central Soch-ty for Buying Food From Other Countries) which found that It Was Interfering with their graft. This society wa* formed hy a com pany of c lever Jew i*h httsiness incrrito hoy food from foreign cooairto* and sell If to the people, a amall age of the profit* going n» the meat, ll md only derelwfn rt m aiOTpnse fr rwML Its All fur skins were needed diers’ wear n»id the few- that were at ill obtainable for bomb use in the form of fur seds sold for $1,000 up. Through speculators, we ohtuined some imitation soft soap at $4 per pound. People said If was made from liuinan corpses, hut It was the only thing available outside of the substi tutes which were soap only In name. A small cake of toilet soap easily brought $3. A servant’s plain w-ooden ward- rol«e. fiwnwrly costing *5. was onoh- tainahle fur less than MTe paid as high as S8 a |s>und fur hatter, from a «»pe<-ttlalur. and my laM <l»ri«rtma* dinner la Berlin ranalsifM of § small fiBOTS. Jmrt emmeh far mm meal far three | ersnai. far arhlrh I Mid fiSk POT «• otM af • p. iidket iRoueu of ia • r«] acfaal roa ta fight sf Dr th*- war aatll the Irst Gemma had as la dnqqird than gtv* la-or# coaid not ••MM look far much la this dtrectioa. j JJ ^ But the ravage* ut war have die- |» ^ ^4 the laM ef pnaed af • Targe percentage af these ' a Npaiatiea for qaMkJy < bred-la-tbe-toone ofih-m and their f> T ** rmrtU ia Guam a is ef seam, places have been taken by dvtUan* . yn^tt.us ee vsry OTsmivs, hm who have been raised from the ranks. 7VT,_" J Zj**. Therein He* the ho|»e of a succeesfal ^ druggist. ' revolution. However, U yea wish first to tael this I will not venture q guess as to when preparation send ten oeata to Dr. tat will be, but I feel sure that It will f <>•. BinghamUm, N. Y., hr a that certainly come about. Fortified by a large portion of the aimy, the German people will at last him on their rulers and destroy the throne and the whole Hohenzolleru regime. - In this connection, I recall a prophecy made early in the war hy an honored colleague of initio of Dresden, an American dentist w'io hud lived and practiced in Germany for forty yeart and understood the German people and their rulers as well, perhaps, as any man alive. . He was »i leader of hi* Fjrof^ssion and a man whose judgment on ail things w-as mo>t accurate. He wa* in dose contact with many leading figure* of the German nohiiity. “Germany will lose the war because her <nu*e l* wrong.” he declared. “Hhe will fight If through to The hitter end until the foundations of the empire are absolutely destroyed!” THE END. bottle. When writing he tioa this paper.—Adv. and All They're FK Far. “There will iwohabty be a shortage of metals In Germany for some jiime to come.” “Perhaps so^htit If It I* decided to scrap all the iron crosses In the em pire that ought to provide enough at one kind of raw iimterial to lust for h few month*, anyhow*.”--Birmingham Ag«*-Herald. a It Caterpillar** h If caterpillar* mmort *« i unity tl eiqirsra that they hate a defin Catarrh Cannot Be Curod by LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they cannot ranch the scat of the dissssa Catarrh la a local disease, greatly Influ enced by constitutional conditions. HALL'fl CATARRH MKDKTNK will curs catarrh m.ls taken Internally and arts throagh the Blood on the Mm-ous Surfaces of tte Kystem. HALI/8 CATARRH MEOICINB Is campsasd of some of the her* ton ice known, combined with seoee of the blood punflrr* MEDICI it results Is cetnrvhal rs Me. Tl _ . A Cm. Prise fihtidw O Cslfal Ol iffipll Wt V K1 VOCTiM Os 1 IsM Dmw >od purifiers. The i^rfest romblfisth>a the tnarediema I* RAU/fl CATARRH BDlriNF is wbat produces sack wow A wspna s Idea af real tag a arw hat. ■